Eastern States

I’m 59 days out from ES100 so I guess it’s time I came up with a training plan. The good news is that Old Dominion proved that I’m in the best 100 mile shape of my life. Granted, I’ve only been doing these for a little over 2 years now (boy, 2015 C&O 100 seems…

You would think I a 3100 word race report would be enough to cover all the details of a race. Normally, it would however there were many things that I ended up leaving out. In no particular order: Race organization. I can’t say enough about how well run this race was. The aid stations were…

Hard. So hard. I don’t have the eloquence to properly describe the difficulty of this race. Yes, there was a lot of vertical gain/loss over the 102.9 miles. Yes, it was hot (90s) and humid. And yes, the trails were highly technical even for Rocksylvania. The latter is what really took me by surprise. I…

Here we go. I’ve been dreading looking forward to this race since I signed up for it last October. I don’t want to say I was looking past C&O Canal because I’m definitely still too new at the distance to do that sort of thing, but ES100 has been my focus all year long. Online…